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WOODCUTS BY WOLF TRAUT.
1. THE YIRGIN AND CHILD WITH TWO ANGELS.
The Virgin, with a single nimbus, wearing a royal crown and a long
robe and mantle, sits on a low throne, covered with a large cushion,
holding the naked Child in her arms. A brocaded hanging rises behind
her head, and the upper corners are filled with branches and late Gothic
ornament. An angel standing 1. offers a flower; another r. plays the
harp. In the foreground are two escutcheons, containing 1. a bunch of
grapes rising from a base like that of a chalice, r. an unknown house-
mark. Single border-line.
[118 x 83.] Good impression, cut out of a book. On the back are 16| lines of
Latin text, printed -with Holzel’s type, from a book which I am unable to identify :
(1. 1) “ terierut . aliiqj nimis impliciti parci fuerut . . .(1. 17) de ea re inscriptis
proficietis.” The text is part of the preface, addressed to “ adolescentes studiosi,” of
some educational -work published “ sub tutela inclyte vniuersitatis Ingolstaten. facul-
tatiscp artiu eiusdem.” The date is approximately 1505-1510.
Purchased from Herr Gutekunst, 1867.
The woodcut has been described by Brulliot (Pt. i, p. 436, no. 3290), with a repro-
duclion of both marks, and by Schreiber (“Manuel,” iii, p. 320, no. cxxxii), with a
reproduction of the second mark only. Both writers take the cut to be a work of the
xv century, and Schreiber assumes, from a wrong interpretation of the first mark,
that it is an illustration of an Augsburg book. He describes an impression at
Maihingen.
The attribution to Traut is my own. His style, as in most of his early illustrations,
is disguised by bad cutting. The angels are especially characteristic; the Virgin
resembles Mary in the Nativity of 1511, while the Child recalls a similar figure in the
lowest compartment of the frontispiece to “ Der beschlossen Gart,” 1505, and also the
Child in the engraving, P. iv, 173, 1. For the ornament and hanging compare the
frontispiece to “De continentia sacerdotum,” 1510.
t ST. GEORGE. 1508.
(Reproduction.)
Photograph of an undescribed woodcut [106 x 156] in the collection of Prince
Liechtenstein at Vienna (Portfolio iv, “ Kriegertrachten ”).
St. George, in the foreground, transfixes the dragon’s neck with his
spear. His helmet is on the ground 1. His squire, mounted himself and
holding St. George’s horse, waits near a clump of trees 1. ; the princess,
holding a sheep by a cord, stands at the foot of a hillock r. The date
1508 is on an oblong stone in the lower corner r.
To be compared with the cuts in Locher’s “Mulae ad Musam comparatio,” etc.,
1506.
For the trees, compare eepecially cuts (2) and (3) in no. 7 (p. 507).
f THE LEGEND OF SS. HENRY AND KUNIGUNDA. 1509.
(Reproduction).
Photograph of a broadside, datcd 1509, printed by Holzel at Nuremberg, with the
heading, “ Oratio ad gloriosam imperatrice sancta Kunegundim diui Henrlci Secudi
vxore.,” of which two impressions are preserved in the Munich library: a, Einbl. vii,
192 [sheet, 360 x 510]; 5, inserted at the end of a special copy (“ Handexemplar ”) of
Schedel’s Chronicle (Latin), Inc. c. a. 2918, described in Serapeum, 1854, p. 147
[sheet, 405 X 590],
WOODCUTS BY WOLF TRAUT.
1. THE YIRGIN AND CHILD WITH TWO ANGELS.
The Virgin, with a single nimbus, wearing a royal crown and a long
robe and mantle, sits on a low throne, covered with a large cushion,
holding the naked Child in her arms. A brocaded hanging rises behind
her head, and the upper corners are filled with branches and late Gothic
ornament. An angel standing 1. offers a flower; another r. plays the
harp. In the foreground are two escutcheons, containing 1. a bunch of
grapes rising from a base like that of a chalice, r. an unknown house-
mark. Single border-line.
[118 x 83.] Good impression, cut out of a book. On the back are 16| lines of
Latin text, printed -with Holzel’s type, from a book which I am unable to identify :
(1. 1) “ terierut . aliiqj nimis impliciti parci fuerut . . .(1. 17) de ea re inscriptis
proficietis.” The text is part of the preface, addressed to “ adolescentes studiosi,” of
some educational -work published “ sub tutela inclyte vniuersitatis Ingolstaten. facul-
tatiscp artiu eiusdem.” The date is approximately 1505-1510.
Purchased from Herr Gutekunst, 1867.
The woodcut has been described by Brulliot (Pt. i, p. 436, no. 3290), with a repro-
duclion of both marks, and by Schreiber (“Manuel,” iii, p. 320, no. cxxxii), with a
reproduction of the second mark only. Both writers take the cut to be a work of the
xv century, and Schreiber assumes, from a wrong interpretation of the first mark,
that it is an illustration of an Augsburg book. He describes an impression at
Maihingen.
The attribution to Traut is my own. His style, as in most of his early illustrations,
is disguised by bad cutting. The angels are especially characteristic; the Virgin
resembles Mary in the Nativity of 1511, while the Child recalls a similar figure in the
lowest compartment of the frontispiece to “ Der beschlossen Gart,” 1505, and also the
Child in the engraving, P. iv, 173, 1. For the ornament and hanging compare the
frontispiece to “De continentia sacerdotum,” 1510.
t ST. GEORGE. 1508.
(Reproduction.)
Photograph of an undescribed woodcut [106 x 156] in the collection of Prince
Liechtenstein at Vienna (Portfolio iv, “ Kriegertrachten ”).
St. George, in the foreground, transfixes the dragon’s neck with his
spear. His helmet is on the ground 1. His squire, mounted himself and
holding St. George’s horse, waits near a clump of trees 1. ; the princess,
holding a sheep by a cord, stands at the foot of a hillock r. The date
1508 is on an oblong stone in the lower corner r.
To be compared with the cuts in Locher’s “Mulae ad Musam comparatio,” etc.,
1506.
For the trees, compare eepecially cuts (2) and (3) in no. 7 (p. 507).
f THE LEGEND OF SS. HENRY AND KUNIGUNDA. 1509.
(Reproduction).
Photograph of a broadside, datcd 1509, printed by Holzel at Nuremberg, with the
heading, “ Oratio ad gloriosam imperatrice sancta Kunegundim diui Henrlci Secudi
vxore.,” of which two impressions are preserved in the Munich library: a, Einbl. vii,
192 [sheet, 360 x 510]; 5, inserted at the end of a special copy (“ Handexemplar ”) of
Schedel’s Chronicle (Latin), Inc. c. a. 2918, described in Serapeum, 1854, p. 147
[sheet, 405 X 590],